The Paramount is spectacular.
ION, about forty minutes ago rottentomatoes.com led me to a review of Alice in Wonderland that contains a huge honking spoiler for the end (or, maybe, a huge honking spoiler for the resolution of the framing story? Anyhow, an Alice-in-this-world spoiler). And it's so weird and improbable and fraught with ginormous potential for lots and lots of brain-hurty problems that even forty minutes later I keep shaking my head and saying,
bzuh? Whafuck? Surely, no?
I really want to want to be able to see it, but the spoiler sounds like the kind of thing that would make me throw up my hands and stalk away like Giles fleeing from Xander's monstrous stupidity.
I have a framed poster of the paramount I got on the pre-wedding visit. I love it.
And tickets are only $5?? I must check to see whether they're playing anything I want to see. Next up is
Captain Blood.
Wound down with
Surrogates
with the fam. Really enjoyed it, cared about who the characters were behind the artifice. Tickled by a movie that had a very valid reason to be populated by very pretty people.
We watched Law Abiding Citizen, Twilight, and Becoming Jane today. Now we're headed out to see Shutter Island.
Not even attempting Oscar fare. Watching Modesty Blaise.
Now we just caught the end of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. My goodness, that's real pretty. Amazing animation, and holy cow, did they use some version of motion capture for the movement and facial expressions? On one hand, highly innovative for the times, on the other, holy animating skills, batman!
I don't know about the expressions, but they definitely rotoscoped at least some of the motion.
Amazing animation, and holy cow, did they use some version of motion capture for the movement and facial expressions? On one hand, highly innovative for the times, on the other, holy animating skills, batman!
I just learned this past week that some footage of scampering deer from NS was used as models for Bambi. It's in the holdings where I work, but it's not digitized...yet.
I've always heard that Snow White is considered the zenith of artistry in traditional animation.
